Opinion Polls: Delphi's Polling Place
Hosted by Showtalk
Opinion polls on all subjects. Opinions? Heck yes, we have opinions - but we're *always* nice about it, even when ours are diametrically opposed to yours. Register your vote today!
- 5090
MEMBERS - 133422
MESSAGES - 3
POSTS TODAY
Discussions
What's Wrong with Wind and Solar? The Serious You: How Current Events Affect You
Started 2/22/21 by WALTER784; 115130 views.
Staff
From: WALTER784
3/19/23
Showtalk said...
That was a disaster.
So was the Afghanistan withdrawal, and so will this squandering of trillions of dollars that won't work.
FWIW
Staff
From: WALTER784
3/23/23
Yep... and this is another one in the making...
EV owners complain about “logistical nightmare” caused by lack of charging stations
Wednesday, March 01, 2023
by: Arsenio Toledo
(Natural News) Owners of electric vehicles (EVs) in the United States are finally admitting that it is a total “logistical nightmare” to own these cars due to the stresses that come with looking for charging stations and waiting around for hours to recharge.
One EV owner, YouTube personality Steve Hammes, discussed how difficult it was for his family when he leased a Hyundai Kona Electric subcompact sport utility vehicle for his 17-year-old daughter Maddie. (Related: EV NIGHTMARE: Man spends 15 hours to travel 178 miles, proving EVs are unsuitable for long-distance travel.)
Hammes believed this was a smart option because the SUV was affordable, practical and allowed Maddie to put more of her savings toward her college fund rather than spending it on fuel. Unfortunately, Hammes ran into a dilemma many residents of Upstate New York are also running into: not being able to find charging stations far away from home.
Owners have noted that charging stations, especially in rural areas, are fewer and far between than those located in more urban areas.
“We’re going through the planning process of how easily Maddie can get from Albany to [Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania] and where she can charge her car,” said Hammes in an interview with ABC News. “It makes me a little nervous. We want fast chargers that take 30 to 40 minutes – it would not make sense to sit at a Level 2 charger for hours. There isn’t a good software tool that helps EV owners plan their trips.”
There are three levels of EV charging. Level 1 can plug into typical household 120-volt outlets and could add between two to four miles of range per hour of charging. Level 2 outlets are typically only found at charging stations and can provide EVs with between 12 to 32 miles of range per hour of charging.
Brighteon.TV
Level 3, or fast charging, is even rarer than Level 2 due to the kind of high-voltage setups required. But these stations can typically add anywhere between 100 to 250 miles of range with just 30 to 45 minutes of charging.
Jared Rosenholtz, editor-at-large for CarBuzz, has downloaded at least eight different apps on his phone from different electric vehicle charging companies like EVgo, Electrify America, ChargePoint and Shell Recharge just so he can power up the EVs he is tasked with reviewing. Not only do these apps clutter his phone, they also require an outstanding balance to use, highlighting how difficult it is for EV owners to map out where they can charge.
“It’s like having an E-ZPass account,” said Rosenholtz. “If your account balance gets low, the app pulls from your credit card on file and charges another $10. I probably have $8 to $10 in each of these apps, just sitting there.”
No improvement in EV infrastructure in past few years
John Voelcker, an industry expert on EVs and the former editor of Green Car Reports, noted that he has seen little improvement in the nation’s EV charging infrastructure in the last four years and he repeatedly hears complaints regarding deficient charging outlets.
Voelcker pointed out that the federal government’s incentives are geared toward creating more charging stations, not “making sure they actually work,” which can lead to charging outlets in the middle of nowhere not having enough power to provide travelers with enough charge quickly.
Tony Quiroga, editor-in-chief of Car and Driver, is very familiar with this predicament. He has become a familiar face in a Mexican restaurant and a coffee shop in Burbank due to how long he spends there while the EVs he tests sit and charge at a station.
“I imagine an ecosystem will be built around charging stations eventually,” said Quiroga. “Longer trips bring up flaws in EVs. People are leery of taking them on long trips – that’s why older EVs don’t have 40,000 miles on them.
Quiroga further noted that even his own team of reporters has to carefully plan and calculate how far EV charging stations are when they conduct comparison tests among EV manufacturers.
“These comparison tests are a logistical nightmare. We plan meals around recharging the vehicles,” he said. “We need to have the battery at 100 percent or
...[Message truncated]
Staff
From: WALTER784
3/23/23
Well, if they don't maintain the charging stations they have in the inner-city area, or those stations are vandalized, EVs won't do much even for short trips outside of the range you can reach after charging at home... assuming you still have power!
FWIW
Staff
From: WALTER784
3/23/23
Solar panels for personal use... yes, but they will not replace fossil fuel generation even if combined with wind power.
FWIW
Staff
From: WALTER784
4/4/23
UK Forced to Use Emergency Coal Generators for First Time as Green Energy Fails to Keep Up
Smoke and steam bellows from the chimneys and cooling towers of Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal fired power station, owned and operated by Uniper at Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire, England. The plant emits 810 million tonnes of CO2 annually. It has a generating capacity of 2,116 MW, enough electricity to meet the needs of …Andrew Aitchison / In pictures via Getty Images
PETER CADDLE
9 Mar 2023
The United Kingdom has been forced to use its emergency coal-fired backup generators for the first time as renewables failed to supply enough energy.
Britain’s crusade for net zero saw another major failure on Tuesday, with the country having to resort to using its emergency coal-fired power plants as renewables were unable to keep up with demand.
The country has been focused on moving away from burning fossil fuels and towards green energy sources in recent years, with the last twelve months in particular seeing the country struggle to keep the lights on at times due to the green agenda of its Conservative Party government.
However, with it becoming clear that Britain’s new sources of power cannot keep up with the old, the country has kept some coal-burning power plants — those few it has not short-sightedly demolished — operational and in reserve, ready to start supplying power to the energy grid should the more eco-friendly sources start to fail.
According to the BBC, such a last resort had to finally be deployed on Tuesday, with two of the plants providing Britons with energy once again after green energy facilities failed to perform.
A total of five separate coal-fired power stations were put on standby yesterday, with two needing to be used in order to keep the energy grid stable.
The use of the power plants represents a new low for the Conservative Party’s green energy agenda, a project that has cost everyday Britons a substantial amount of money and the country much of its energy security over the last 12 months.
Despite receiving near unanimous support from the senior Tories sitting in government, renewables in Britain have proven unable to take over from fossil fuel-burning methods of energy generation.
This has resulted in the United Kingdom having to develop fossil-fuel-based failsafes for the British energy grid, keeping coal power plants on standby in order to ensure a minimum supply of power throughout the country.
Even this has, at times, not been enough, with Britain also now having a system of voluntary power rationing in place, where poorer energy customers are paid not to use electricity at certain peak-usage times during the day.
Dreamt up in 2022, the rationing system saw its first real deployment in January this year, with some energy customers paid to minimise electricity use between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. in order to help avert a possible collapse of the energy grid.
Green Power Fail: UK Forced to Use Emergency Coal Plants for First Time (breitbart.com)
FWIW
TOP